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Old 20th May 2004, 13:40
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First answer is close, but you are spot on with the Skylarks!

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Old 20th May 2004, 14:24
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I'm a baby birdie - the only one made!
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Jenny Wren? (Garland was it?)
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Old 20th May 2004, 18:24
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Nope - sorry, not that!
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Old 20th May 2004, 18:36
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How about the Hawker Cygnet?

Can't be that, there were two of them!

How about the Rominger EYAS?

I seem to be thinking aloud here, but what about the Granger Archaeopteryx?

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Old 20th May 2004, 19:49
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None of the above!
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Old 20th May 2004, 20:15
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All right, how about the Lockheed Hummingbird?

Or the A160 Hummingbird, built by DARPA?
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And again.....................................nope!
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Old 21st May 2004, 03:27
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Nieuport Nie 25?

http://www.wwi-models.org/mail-archi...1995/1336.html
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Old 21st May 2004, 06:50
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And once again..................................nope!
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Where you a Hawker Tomtit perchance Herr BEagle?

Again I answer myself. That'll be a no then LNS cos there may be only one left but there were quite a few made.
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Back to basics:

British?

Piston?

Fixed wing?

Military?
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Saab D:

Yes
Yes
Yes
Ultimately, yes
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Old 21st May 2004, 14:07
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Are you the Owlet ?????
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Old 21st May 2004, 15:16
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I am indeed the G.A.L. Owlet!

See http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircra...45%20OWLET.htm

Over to you, Peter!
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Thanks BEagle.

I was the most successful ever made.

Peter.
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American?

Piston?

Fixed wing?

Military?
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Old 21st May 2004, 18:35
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Evening SD.

American - no

Piston - yes

Fixed wing - no

Military - no


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If not fixed wing then rotary or flex-wing?

British?
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No not British.

No not rotary or flex-wing.
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